Crescent Moon and Earthshine

[Kain]

It seems really hard to get the crescent moon to come out Afocal, I'm a little disappointed if the truth is known, but never mind.

A focal with the Powershot A70

Taken with the Fuji S6500

F5.6

1.2sec Ex

Auto Focus

I can't say I am not pleased with that, it's the first time I have managed to get earthshine on a picture. This pile of [removed word] camera is useful for something.

Kain

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Those just look a little overexposed so maybe if you did some bracketing * you could get where you want to be.

Captain Chaos

* Bracketing - the action of taking loads of photographs using different shutter speeds in the hope that one of them will be correct.

[geppetto]

That's a lovely earthshine image matey.

[CELESCOPE]

yes nice ones Kain ,

Rog

[Kain]

Isn't earthshine meant to be over-exposed? I was following the guide in this months S@N mag

Do you have to lower the exposure a far bit for crescent images (not earthshine)? More so than say for the first quarter?

Cheers Phil, CC

Kain

[SteelRat]

Umm - shiny!

Nice stuff Kain 8)

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Sorry mate, you said you were disappointed with the crescent. I assumed you just wanted that bit. The earthshine bit is there alright, nowt wrong with that.

Captain Chaos

[Kain]

Ahh yeah, I see what you meant now lol, I misread it.

Was going to give it another go, but it's snowing now lol.

Kain

[lunator]

Kain

the earthshine pic is good.

What don't you like about the 6500?

Cheers

Ian

[Kain]

I just cant seem to take Afocal shots with it, they all come out either over-exposed or blur!

Perhaps when I get the right size camera ring, I might be able to get somewhere.

I have one of these

http://www.telescopehouse.co.uk/page.aspx?theLang=001lngdef&pointerid=FF83D60A06CD4FAF978FC176B2EE2C30&action=lnk

But I need the 58mm threaded adaptor. However these are used with 1.25" EPs, do they do one that I can use my 2" EPs on?

I'm just abit disappointed, £250 quids worth of camera, and my £20 point and shoot thing seems to do better.

Kain

[Caz]

Don't give up on your camera Kain, you've only had it a few weeks, and in that time, you haven't exactly had the skies to practice, give yourself chance!!

Oh btw, nice pic...

Caz

[Kain]

This is one I caught between the clouds, which I have just thought about posting lol

Kain

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Definitely got it with that one mate. Great shot.

Captain Chaos

[Kain]

Thanks CC

It's going to be clear again tonight, so I am going to have another shot at it.

I'm going to get used to this camera, even if it kills me!

Kain

[geppetto]

That's another good one..

Honestly mate, for earthshine images those are much better than you seem to think they are 8)

Good luck for tonight, look forward to seeing what you get

[Kain]

Oh right, I didn't know, I aint seen many earthshine pics to be honest, so I don't really know whats good and what isn't.

Cheers Phil

Kain

[lunator]

Kain

I have found a similar problem with my 5600 for afocal. It will only work with the 25mm ortho. Whereas my A607 point & shoot will work with any eyepiece.

It is to do with eye-relief. The main issue is that the fix lens put the chip too far from the eyepiece and the only way to overcome this is to use the zoom but this then makes the camera eyepiece optical alignment absolutely critical will show any slight mis-algnment.

Cheers

Ian

[SteelRat]

Eye relief and critical alignment on zoom... s'the same with phones eh Ian?

[Kain]

You and your blumming phone

Is it the D900? I cant remember what you said? I can upgrade mine next week

Kain

[SteelRat]

Hehehe Yup, D900. There are the Nokia with the Zeiss lens and the Sony Ericsson both with 3.2mp but I didn't get on with the Sony and the Nokia's a bit BIG. Shame really cos I like the Nokia menu system. Will see what they got out next upgrade.